Sunday fundraiser to help WSU football player

Hair stylists at Gina Mary Hair Design in Issaquah will team with students from Eastlake High School this Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. to raise money for Cory Mackay, the WSU football player who was injured in a car accident two months ago.

Mackay, a freshman defensive lineman, rolled his truck driving home from Pullman following the end of spring semester finals and fractured his back in two places.

Cory Mackay

Mackay underwent surgery the morning following his accident and returned home a month ago. Sunday’s fundraiser will help his family cover medical expenses and costs to update their home with wheelchair accessible ramps.

Seven stylists at Gina Mary Hair Design will cut hair Sunday for a minimum donation of $20 while current and former Eastlake cheerleaders conduct a car wash outside.

“We hope to raise $1,000 cutting hair and $1,000 washing cars,” Mary Scudder, one of the stylists at Gina Mary, said in an e-mail.

Scudder, whose daughter is friends with Mackay’s sister, said she came up with the idea for the event after she cut Cory’s hair in the hospital.

All money from the event will go to the Cory Mackay Fund. There will also be donated items from the WSU football team to be auctioned off, Scudder said.